The Migration Agency (DGM) carried out a sweeping operation in different locations in the province of Santiago Rodriguez and some 510 persons were detained. During the operation over 60 inspectors and agents of the DGM went into the field with the support of dozens of military personnel from the 4th Brigade of the infantry and in coordination with members of the Justice Department in the province.
Places such as Los Tomines, La Joya, Cambelen, Fello Rosario, Villa Polin, Las Espinas, Cerro Dulce, Alto de Nana, Cruce de Maguana, Guayabal, Mejoramiento Social, Le Limon and El Guano were combed for illegal residents.
The interdiction of the undocumented aliens was the result of ongoing intelligence work in the province that permitted locating these persons.
Readers might remember that less than a century ago Santiago Rodriguez was a town where Haitian currency freely circulated and the use of Haitian Creole was commonplace.
After a process of examining documents, 182 persons (161 men and 21 women) were deported across the border at Dajabon.
By order of the Migration Agency director, Lieutenant General Maximo William Muñoz Delgado, these operations will continue unannounced in other provinces of the Dominican Republic in order to continue the search for undocumented foreigners who are in the country in violation of Migration Law 285-04.
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Diario Libre
10 August 2017
